Justin Owens » robot

Daily… A robot and a dog

jay — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:10:51 +0000

This little guy is a dog magnet!

Daily… A robit revisited

jay — Sat, 21 May 2011 16:14:53 +0000

I was rather unhappy with my robot sketch from last night. I was tired and a bit down from having to deal with computer issues. I just didn’t like the robot design, as in my mind, there wasn’t one. I should’ve gone over it with one more layer to come up with something a little less ‘michelin man’.

This evening I wanted to tackle another robot and get a bit more descriptive with the sketch.

Daily… A robit

jay — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:10:57 +0000

Well the GPU on my iMac died again today. It last failed, and was subsequently replaced, in Febuary. I’ll be taking it into the shop in the next couple days, I likely won’t have it back for a week or two (based on how long it took last time). It’s frustrating. I’m okay with computers acting like computers, but as this is my main work machine, I feel cut-off from my normal workflow.

Daily… A robotic creature

jay — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:42:26 +0000

An abstract sketch-turned robotic creature done in painter.

Daily… An engineer and his robot

jay — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:59:02 +0000

I go through phases where I’m incredibly focused artistically and phases where it’s a complete struggle to draw. I’ve been in the latter phase recently. This leads me to do more little sketches in my sketchbook rather than working on paintings. It’s not really a bad thing, as sketching is good practice, but I really wanting to be working towards more finished work.

School has been rather busy and there’s only a couple weeks left in the semester. I’ve been tired from being pulled in so many directions, but I’ve still had the time to paint. I just haven’t had the motivation. I have a lot of artistic plans and ambitions, I need to work past this slump and focus my energy. I’ll be out of school shortly which will be quite a weight off my shoulders, I fully plan to take advantage of that!

Daily… A mech robot

jay — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:06:18 +0000

Doodling in painter tonight and came up with this mech/robot/creature type thing.

Daily… A curious robot

jay — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:35:06 +0000

I’m still unsatisfied, in general, with how much time I’m putting into these daily drawings. School and work have been busy enough that when I want to be drawing or painting, I feel I need to put my energy elsewhere. That leads to doing my drawing right before bed, at which point I’m rather tired, and I typically rush the image. I have some big deadlines coming up as well, so I don’t expect to be where I want until maybe next weekend. I’m trying to get ahead of work and school so that I can be drawing in the mornings when I’m full of energy.

Daily… More dalek exploration

jay — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:23:57 +0000

In this set of sketches I was exploring more dog shaped dalek designs. I’m still looking for the right combination of dalek and dog. This part of the process is always fun and I never quite know where the final design will end up.

Daily… A dalek’s best friend

jay — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:14:54 +0000

I started using Piwik for my analytics and I’ve liked the results, I find the stats much easier to read than Google’s analytics. I saw a two referrals from boingboing.net’s submissions page, where user Bliss was linking to my baby dalek sketch. They asked, what’s next, dalek puppies? Yes, dalek puppies are next!

This was my first go designing a dalek dog, very much along the lines of the doctors k9 robot.

Daily… A baby dalek

jay — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:24:42 +0000

Yes, you read that correctly. Here’s a sketch of a dalek baby. I used a Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencil for the sketch and then added value with a few values of the Copic Sketch Markers. The cool thing about the pencil is that it really activates with any sort of water and becomes a wash. It means I can use a N0 marker (meaning it has almost no value to it) and I can blend the pencil work.